just came across this again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVzeHTlWIDY

the *actual* reason why DRAM is expensive (as it does this price thing every decade ish and they always blame whatever thing du jour for it)

also in case youtube isn't good enough of a source there's also a wikipedia page on it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal